Talent Acquisition Partner

This role will be responsible for end-to-end Early Careers hiring, creating a future leadership pipeline, and ensuring a smooth candidate experience. Conduct recruitment drives, social media campaigns, meet turnaround times and quality standard regarding end to end hiring and contract management and resourcing related activities in line with global standards and service level agreements.

Key Responsibilities

Manage Early Careers portfolio and assigned business function.

Build and develop strong, sustainable relationships with external stakeholders, promoting the Bank as an employer of choice to drive performance and recruitment.

Manage cross-functional and resourcing projects as required.

Provide ad hoc support to the Head, Resourcing, Pakistan as required.

Ensure programs are executed as per regulatory requirements for Persons With Determination (PWD) interns.

Oversee end-to-end Talent Acquisition operations, including hiring, onboarding.

Complete Job Opening Team tasks based in-country.

Source candidates for Pakistan-based roles for Early Careers and assigned business functions, ensuring direct sourcing channels and preferred suppliers are used.

Ensure delivery of direct sourcing targets for the country, design and deliver sourcing strategies and solutions that meet business needs, generate diverse pools of applicants, and control cost bases.

Identify ways to build the candidate experience as they navigate the Resourcing process in-country, sharing best practice regionally and globally.

Organize and manage Early Careers recruitment events and activities, such as career fairs, to attract and hire top talent.

Ensure the Group’s selection products and processes are thoroughly embedded across the country, improving the effectiveness of selection and minimizing risks.

Drive culture change to embed greater hiring manager discipline in all aspects of the Resourcing process, such as upskilling hiring managers in shortlisting and providing feedback.

Conduct interviews for business functions and assess candidates as part of assessment days for program roles, such as Early Careers.

Track completion of legal right-to-work documentation, coordinating and obtaining documentation as required.

Coordinate completion of pre-employment checks with external vendors, ensuring candidates provide required information in a timely manner, monitoring third-party completion of checks in line with SLAs and Bank policy, and flagging issues for resolution.

Involve in Talent Acquisition risk-related activities.

Use MyRecruiting to manage the end-to-end resourcing process for Early Careers and lateral hiring for assigned businesses, keeping the system up to date.

Review dashboards and reports to identify and action necessary system housekeeping or compliance requirements, such as archiving and deleting applications, removing duplicate JRs, and closing JRs.

Escalate issues and risks as appropriate for tracking and management.

Skills and Experience

Talent Management

Data Analytics

Interviewing

End-to-end recruitment

Programme management (for Early careers i.e. internship and graduate programmes)

Stakeholder Management

Communication and presentation skills

Candidate Experience

Employee Onboarding

Qualifications

Minimum Bachelor's Degree

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do

Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well

Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.

Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.

Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.

Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits

A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.

Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.